Kristoffer Kropp
Biographic Data
| ID | 255622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristoffer Kropp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristoffer |
| FAMILY NAME | Kropp |
| SIGNATURE | KROPP K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8714-8830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Students in unequal exchange: The European social space of Erasmus student mobility
The Erasmus program stands as one of the successes in European Union cultural integration. This article analyzes the patterns of student exchanges between European universities to understand their homological relations to principles of differentiation in the European social space. Using Bourdieu’s relational approach, we conceptualize the patterns of Erasmus exchanges as European power relations and how both universities and students perceive and…
The infrastructure of interdisciplinarity for EU research: Institutional configurations and collaborative practices for the SSH disciplines
From the introduction of Horizon 2020, interdisciplinarityand the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH)have become key concerns in EU-funded research. Framedas a ‘cross-cutting issue,’ SSH integration has been shapedby policy-driven priorities that define its role and influence.Drawing on qualitative analysis of documents, interviews,and ethnographic fieldwork, we use an STS infrastructurelens to link the historical development of i…
ESF and the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences – Constructing Institutions for European Social Sciences
This article analyses the establishment of the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences in the European Science Foundation in the late 1970s. Using the fields theoretical framework, it focuses on the discussions in the Ad Hoc committee formed to set up the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences. The article shows how specific ideas about what social science should be, what Europe was and what kind of social science knowledge that was suitable…
Homologies in fields of cultural production. Evidence from the European scientific field
The Space of Research Topics in Economics: Scientific Position-Takings and Individual Positions in Swiss Economic Science
Within the Social Studies of Economics, research has been dominated by case-oriented approaches. In this article, we propose and demonstrate the value of adding a quantitative, field-theoretical approach. Specifically, we outline a perspective for studying economics as a social field, focusing on the homology between research topics and the resources and characteristics of researchers. We specifically attend to the Swiss case, entailing integrati…
The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe
A growing body of work has problematised how global epistemic inequality is reproduced in contemporary university settings and epistemic cultures – thinking through the lens of Eurocentrism and utilising the language of a Global North and South. However, the extent to which a relationship between geopolitical and epistemic inequality is woven into knowledge production within Europe has received less attention. Rising EU funding opportunities have…
Changing the topics: The social sciences in EU-funded research projects
Quand le Danemark fermait ses départements de sociologie
En 1986, le ministère danois de l'Éducation pris la décision de ne plus admettre d'étudiants dans les programmes de sociologie de l'université de Copenhague, prélude à la fermeture par l'université de ses deux départements de sociologie. Il faudra attendre près de dix ans avant qu'un nouveau département de sociologie ne soit créé. Trente-cinq ans après, le monde académique danois est encore marqué par cette décision dont le souvenir resurgit régu…
The EU and the social sciences: A fragile relationship
The position of the social sciences within European Union (EU) research policy is fragile. The social sciences have been entangled with the EU integration process throughout the organization's trajectory; still, social sciences have only lately been integrated into EU research policy in a marginal position. Drawing on Bourdieu's generic field analysis, this article analyses the struggles over the position of the social sciences within EU research…
The European Social Survey and European research policy: Homological structures and conjunctural alliances
This article analyses the history of the European Social Survey (ESS) and its relationship to changes in European research policy, using Bourdieu’s field-analytical approach. It argues that the success of the ESS relied on three interwoven processes that we can understand theoretically in terms of the establishment of homological structures and the formation of conjunctural alliances between the field of European social-scientific research and th…
A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to European Integration: Four Analytical Principles
Scholars are deeply involved in the process of European integration, but we lack systematic understanding of this involvement. On the one hand, scholars, academic ideas and ideologies shape European integration and policies (e.g. the Economic and Monetary Union and the free movement of people). On the other hand, EU institutions, policies and practitioners produce particular forms of knowledge (e.g. the Eurobarometer and benchmarking of national …
A Historical Account of Danish Sociology: A Troubled Sociology
This book provides the first English-language account of the history of Danish sociology, examining it from the late 19th century to the present day. Focusing on the discipline's struggle for recognit
Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences
No Crisis but Methodological Separatism: A Comparative Study of Finnish and Danish Publication Trends between 1990 and 2009
This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented sociology using data from the articles of three Nordic sociological journals: one international ( Acta Sociologica), one Finnish ( Sosiologia), and one Danish ( Dansk Sociologi). The data consists of 943 articles in total: 353 published in Acta Sociologica, 277 in Sosiologia and 313 in Dansk Sociologi over the period 1990-2009. We distinguish between three main…
Dansk Sociologis rolle i dansk sociologi – vidensdeling og inspiration gennem 25 år
Artiklen skildrer historien om Dansk Sociologi fra etableringen i 1989-1990 til jubilæumsåret 2014. Initiativet blev taget af Dansk Sociologforening under den institutionelle krise i faget, der kulminerede da undervisningsminister Bertel Haarder besluttede at lukke uddannelsen. Tidsskriftet har været benyttet som publiceringskanal af en meget stor andel af danske sociologer og oplagstal har været stigende frem til omkring 2006. De seneste 10-15 å…
Genetableringen af dansk sociologisk forskning – en skitse af strukturer og genese af dansk sociologisk forskning efter 1990
Dansk sociologisk forskning har en bemærkelsesværdig historie. I denne artikel undersøger jeg i et feltanalytisk perspektiv sammenhængen mellem feltet for dansk sociologisk forsknings nuværende struktur og dets historie. Artiklen har to empiriske dele. I første del viser jeg via multipel korrespondanceanalyse tre væsentlige differentieringsprincipper i nutidig dansk sociologisk forskning. For det første mængden af akademisk kapital, for det andet…
Social sciences in the field of power - the case of Danish social science
The social science disciplines are strongly differentiated both on an epistemological level and in problem choice. It can be argued that they are characterized by a number of different epistemological ways of position-taking or ways of legitimizing social scientific knowledge production. Furthermore, different scientific problems and social institutions are allocated as research objects to different social science disciplines. This article looks …
Mode-2 social science knowledge production? The case of Danish sociology between institutional crisis and new welfare stabilizations
The notion of mode-2 knowledge production points to far-reaching transformations in science-society relations, but few attempts have been made to investigate what growing economic and political demands on research may entail for the social sciences. This case study of new patterns of social science knowledge production outlines some major institutional and cognitive changes in Danish academic sociology during ‘mode-2’ times, from the 1980s onward…
"Fra nationale til globale sociologier - og tilbage igen? - refleksioner fra ISA-konferencen "Facing an unequal world: Challenges for sociology, Taipei, 23.-25. marts 2009
A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to European Integration: Four Analytical Principles
Scholars are deeply involved in the process of European integration, but we lack systematic understanding of this involvement. On the one hand, scholars, academic ideas and ideologies shape European integration and policies (e.g. the Economic and Monetary Union and the free movement of people). On the other hand, EU institutions, policies and practitioners produce particular forms of knowledge (e.g. the Eurobarometer and benchmarking of national …
Social sciences in the field of power - the case of Danish social science
The social science disciplines are strongly differentiated both on an epistemological level and in problem choice. It can be argued that they are characterized by a number of different epistemological ways of position-taking or ways of legitimizing social scientific knowledge production. Furthermore, different scientific problems and social institutions are allocated as research objects to different social science disciplines. This article looks …
A Historical Account of Danish Sociology: A Troubled Sociology
This book provides the first English-language account of the history of Danish sociology, examining it from the late 19th century to the present day. Focusing on the discipline's struggle for recognit
Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences
Mode-2 social science knowledge production? The case of Danish sociology between institutional crisis and new welfare stabilizations
The notion of mode-2 knowledge production points to far-reaching transformations in science-society relations, but few attempts have been made to investigate what growing economic and political demands on research may entail for the social sciences. This case study of new patterns of social science knowledge production outlines some major institutional and cognitive changes in Danish academic sociology during ‘mode-2’ times, from the 1980s onward…
The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe
A growing body of work has problematised how global epistemic inequality is reproduced in contemporary university settings and epistemic cultures – thinking through the lens of Eurocentrism and utilising the language of a Global North and South. However, the extent to which a relationship between geopolitical and epistemic inequality is woven into knowledge production within Europe has received less attention. Rising EU funding opportunities have…
Changing the topics: The social sciences in EU-funded research projects
No Crisis but Methodological Separatism: A Comparative Study of Finnish and Danish Publication Trends between 1990 and 2009
This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented sociology using data from the articles of three Nordic sociological journals: one international ( Acta Sociologica), one Finnish ( Sosiologia), and one Danish ( Dansk Sociologi). The data consists of 943 articles in total: 353 published in Acta Sociologica, 277 in Sosiologia and 313 in Dansk Sociologi over the period 1990-2009. We distinguish between three main…
The European Social Survey and European research policy: Homological structures and conjunctural alliances
This article analyses the history of the European Social Survey (ESS) and its relationship to changes in European research policy, using Bourdieu’s field-analytical approach. It argues that the success of the ESS relied on three interwoven processes that we can understand theoretically in terms of the establishment of homological structures and the formation of conjunctural alliances between the field of European social-scientific research and th…
The Space of Research Topics in Economics: Scientific Position-Takings and Individual Positions in Swiss Economic Science
Within the Social Studies of Economics, research has been dominated by case-oriented approaches. In this article, we propose and demonstrate the value of adding a quantitative, field-theoretical approach. Specifically, we outline a perspective for studying economics as a social field, focusing on the homology between research topics and the resources and characteristics of researchers. We specifically attend to the Swiss case, entailing integrati…
Quand le Danemark fermait ses départements de sociologie
En 1986, le ministère danois de l'Éducation pris la décision de ne plus admettre d'étudiants dans les programmes de sociologie de l'université de Copenhague, prélude à la fermeture par l'université de ses deux départements de sociologie. Il faudra attendre près de dix ans avant qu'un nouveau département de sociologie ne soit créé. Trente-cinq ans après, le monde académique danois est encore marqué par cette décision dont le souvenir resurgit régu…
"Fra nationale til globale sociologier - og tilbage igen? - refleksioner fra ISA-konferencen "Facing an unequal world: Challenges for sociology, Taipei, 23.-25. marts 2009
Mode-2 social science knowledge production? The case of Danish sociology between institutional crisis and new welfare stabilizations
The notion of mode-2 knowledge production points to far-reaching transformations in science-society relations, but few attempts have been made to investigate what growing economic and political demands on research may entail for the social sciences. This case study of new patterns of social science knowledge production outlines some major institutional and cognitive changes in Danish academic sociology during ‘mode-2’ times, from the 1980s onward…
Genetableringen af dansk sociologisk forskning – en skitse af strukturer og genese af dansk sociologisk forskning efter 1990
Dansk sociologisk forskning har en bemærkelsesværdig historie. I denne artikel undersøger jeg i et feltanalytisk perspektiv sammenhængen mellem feltet for dansk sociologisk forsknings nuværende struktur og dets historie. Artiklen har to empiriske dele. I første del viser jeg via multipel korrespondanceanalyse tre væsentlige differentieringsprincipper i nutidig dansk sociologisk forskning. For det første mængden af akademisk kapital, for det andet…
Social sciences in the field of power - the case of Danish social science
The social science disciplines are strongly differentiated both on an epistemological level and in problem choice. It can be argued that they are characterized by a number of different epistemological ways of position-taking or ways of legitimizing social scientific knowledge production. Furthermore, different scientific problems and social institutions are allocated as research objects to different social science disciplines. This article looks …
Dansk Sociologis rolle i dansk sociologi – vidensdeling og inspiration gennem 25 år
Artiklen skildrer historien om Dansk Sociologi fra etableringen i 1989-1990 til jubilæumsåret 2014. Initiativet blev taget af Dansk Sociologforening under den institutionelle krise i faget, der kulminerede da undervisningsminister Bertel Haarder besluttede at lukke uddannelsen. Tidsskriftet har været benyttet som publiceringskanal af en meget stor andel af danske sociologer og oplagstal har været stigende frem til omkring 2006. De seneste 10-15 å…
A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to European Integration: Four Analytical Principles
Scholars are deeply involved in the process of European integration, but we lack systematic understanding of this involvement. On the one hand, scholars, academic ideas and ideologies shape European integration and policies (e.g. the Economic and Monetary Union and the free movement of people). On the other hand, EU institutions, policies and practitioners produce particular forms of knowledge (e.g. the Eurobarometer and benchmarking of national …
A Historical Account of Danish Sociology: A Troubled Sociology
This book provides the first English-language account of the history of Danish sociology, examining it from the late 19th century to the present day. Focusing on the discipline's struggle for recognit
Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences
No Crisis but Methodological Separatism: A Comparative Study of Finnish and Danish Publication Trends between 1990 and 2009
This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented sociology using data from the articles of three Nordic sociological journals: one international ( Acta Sociologica), one Finnish ( Sosiologia), and one Danish ( Dansk Sociologi). The data consists of 943 articles in total: 353 published in Acta Sociologica, 277 in Sosiologia and 313 in Dansk Sociologi over the period 1990-2009. We distinguish between three main…
The European Social Survey and European research policy: Homological structures and conjunctural alliances
This article analyses the history of the European Social Survey (ESS) and its relationship to changes in European research policy, using Bourdieu’s field-analytical approach. It argues that the success of the ESS relied on three interwoven processes that we can understand theoretically in terms of the establishment of homological structures and the formation of conjunctural alliances between the field of European social-scientific research and th…
The EU and the social sciences: A fragile relationship
The position of the social sciences within European Union (EU) research policy is fragile. The social sciences have been entangled with the EU integration process throughout the organization's trajectory; still, social sciences have only lately been integrated into EU research policy in a marginal position. Drawing on Bourdieu's generic field analysis, this article analyses the struggles over the position of the social sciences within EU research…
Changing the topics: The social sciences in EU-funded research projects
Quand le Danemark fermait ses départements de sociologie
En 1986, le ministère danois de l'Éducation pris la décision de ne plus admettre d'étudiants dans les programmes de sociologie de l'université de Copenhague, prélude à la fermeture par l'université de ses deux départements de sociologie. Il faudra attendre près de dix ans avant qu'un nouveau département de sociologie ne soit créé. Trente-cinq ans après, le monde académique danois est encore marqué par cette décision dont le souvenir resurgit régu…
The Space of Research Topics in Economics: Scientific Position-Takings and Individual Positions in Swiss Economic Science
Within the Social Studies of Economics, research has been dominated by case-oriented approaches. In this article, we propose and demonstrate the value of adding a quantitative, field-theoretical approach. Specifically, we outline a perspective for studying economics as a social field, focusing on the homology between research topics and the resources and characteristics of researchers. We specifically attend to the Swiss case, entailing integrati…
The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe
A growing body of work has problematised how global epistemic inequality is reproduced in contemporary university settings and epistemic cultures – thinking through the lens of Eurocentrism and utilising the language of a Global North and South. However, the extent to which a relationship between geopolitical and epistemic inequality is woven into knowledge production within Europe has received less attention. Rising EU funding opportunities have…
ESF and the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences – Constructing Institutions for European Social Sciences
This article analyses the establishment of the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences in the European Science Foundation in the late 1970s. Using the fields theoretical framework, it focuses on the discussions in the Ad Hoc committee formed to set up the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences. The article shows how specific ideas about what social science should be, what Europe was and what kind of social science knowledge that was suitable…
Homologies in fields of cultural production. Evidence from the European scientific field
Students in unequal exchange: The European social space of Erasmus student mobility
The Erasmus program stands as one of the successes in European Union cultural integration. This article analyzes the patterns of student exchanges between European universities to understand their homological relations to principles of differentiation in the European social space. Using Bourdieu’s relational approach, we conceptualize the patterns of Erasmus exchanges as European power relations and how both universities and students perceive and…
The infrastructure of interdisciplinarity for EU research: Institutional configurations and collaborative practices for the SSH disciplines
From the introduction of Horizon 2020, interdisciplinarityand the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH)have become key concerns in EU-funded research. Framedas a ‘cross-cutting issue,’ SSH integration has been shapedby policy-driven priorities that define its role and influence.Drawing on qualitative analysis of documents, interviews,and ethnographic fieldwork, we use an STS infrastructurelens to link the historical development of i…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · European union (5 works)